Meaning of interlanguage | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A language generated by a student of a foreign language that incorporates aspects of their native language and the target language.
2. A lingua franca, a common language used by speakers of different languages
3. A pidgin or creole

Equivalents

Examples

“Trasyanka and Surzhyk are interlanguages: a Belarusian–Russian and a Ukrainian–Russian mixed language.”

“The learner's selection from his/her store of interlanguage rules is not haphazard but systematic and predictable, based as it is on his/her existing rule system in much the same way as the native speaker bases his/her speech on the internalized knowledge of the L1 system.”

“Latin used to be the European interlanguage. Currently English widely serves this purpose.”

“As [David] Bellos points out, those born as English speakers are now a minority of English speakers: most speak it as a second language. English is the world’s biggest interlanguage.”

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